Pin turning tool kit

Abstract

An improved piano tuning lever includes a handle with a loop or ring large enough to fit the fingers of a user's hand, thereby providing a grip around the perimeter of the loop or ring which is independent of the axis of the handle. The resulting grip affords improved ergonomics and may lessen stress in the user's wrist and hand when having to conform to various angles of the handle axis as the tuning lever is moved from tuning pin to tuning pin over the course of a piano tuning. The improved handle and loop or ring may be made any size or shape, symmetrical or asymmetrical and with its core being solid, hollow, or filled. Another embodiment of the piano tuning lever includes a spline designed to mate with an inventive piano tuning lever head having complementary splines.

Description

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION[0001]This US non-provisional utility application claims the benefit of priority to U.S. provisional application 63 / 012,012 “Pin Turning Tool Kit,” filed 17 Apr. 2020. The entire contents of U.S. provisional application 63 / 012,012 “Pin Turning Tool Kit,” filed 17 Apr. 2020 are hereby incorporated into this document by reference.COPYRIGHT STATEMENT[0002]A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains material that is subject to copyright protection. The copyright owner has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by anyone of the patent document or the patent disclosure as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office patent file or records, but otherwise reserves all copyright rights whatsoever.FIELD[0003]The invention relates to hand-held and hand-operated tools for gripping upon and turning pins while tuning pianos and other musical instruments or devices having tension-adjustable strings wherein at least one string end is wound...

AI Technical Summary

Benefits of technology

The invention is an instrument tuning tool designed to make it easier for musicians to tune stringed instruments without having to contort their hand or body into uncomfortable positions. The tool has a handle with a loop that can be adjusted to be at different orientations, so that it can be used comfortably on different types of instruments. This design helps to minimize stress and strain on the user's body, which makes it easier to tune instruments and play them comfortably.

Problems solved by technology

Thus, by using the invention, the wrist gripping the handle remains within a comfortable, non-injurious range even while the axis of the stem portion of the handle might be at an angle no one could grip comfortably while attempting to exert substantial twisting forces on a tuning pin, and a user gipping and twisting at such an extreme angle would likely incur pain and discomfort and also risk repetitive stress injury.

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